Are gloves in MMA an advantage?

with no gloves at all the striker would be even more dangerous

 

no he would just have busted hands

 

and the other fella would have a busted face, fighting with no gloves would be ridicoulous...

 

Yes it is harder to lock up a Rear naked choke with the gloves on.

 

I would have to say yes, could you imagine how fast and dangerous a pro boxer would be using this size of gloves?

 

Yes, with gloves/wraps on you can punch hard longer.

@196osh: Not exactly sure what you mean by harder to rnc with gloves on. It always felt absolutely the same. Gi in fact makes it much harder to sink it in.

On the other hand gloves give something to hold on to when doing arm bars.

 

For the many people currently in mma who have little or no training with punching with the proper part of the hand, not necessarily.

However, for the trained martial artist who develops strong knuckles and callouses paired with proper punching technique the advantageous would be outstanding. The physical damage done to the opponents face when hit properly by a bare knuckle punch is decimating. Bones in the face break, and the skin cuts open in horrifying gashes.

Here is an example of some breaking in Taekwondo. These people have conditioned their hands to withstand breaking multiple slabs of granite, as is displayed in the video.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwVadjkybU[/ame]

A large part of realistic self defense training is an integral part of karate-do (and Taekwondo) is Hitting the Makiwara or 'forging post'. The Proper technique required, and the result of conditioned knuckles, is very important for proper self-defense. The wearing of gloves makes this valuable training irrelevant.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjkYLEnUGvw&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0iaMx7XM0[/ame]

 

Its just harder to sink in I have not rolled with mma gloves on a great deal but it acts like a gi in that it gives something for guys to grab to stop it.

Watch Marcelo Garcia's mma fight, if he did not have gloves he would have finished it about 100x over, he had the guys back an insane amount of time.

 

That is not an advantage when it means that you will be doing less damage and expending more energy. It is heavily disadvantageous.

 

Provided you are punching properly, you could throw and land far more than needed. Adding gloves greatly decreases the damage of the punch (slightly increasing volume necessary in some circumstances), without such reduction the volume would not be needed, but could be achieved if the necessity ever arose.

In a battle of fist vs. face, the fist will undoubtedly win.

so you are saying that after punching someone five times my hands would not be able to withstand the damage? Because I have provided extensive contradictory evidence.

 

I can see how it is different, but that does not mean it is irrelevant. These people are punching surfaces which are far thicker, harder, heavier, denser, and less padded than the human face at full force. They have trained their technique and conditioned their hands to be able to withstand forces far tougher than anyones body, which more than proves my point.

These people in the video were throwing punches as had as possible, against surfaces far harder than the human face, and they were completely fine.

Also, a person would not be able to withstand nearly the same number of barefisted punches from a trained practitioner as the number of padded punches with greater surface area and a less dense striking object.

You are mistaken on both sides of the equation.

 

That training is not irrelivant.. There is something that goes on in yoru bones, happens with weight lifters as well...

As you create trauma to the bones in your hands, shins, knuckles, they break down and are rebuilt, denser, heavier, and stronger.

So, yeah.. I'm saying someone who has been training striking with say, their shin/tibia is going to have a heavier bone, going to hit harder and less likelihood of being injured.. Same concept works with the hands and feet, the entire system.

With weight lifters, you put on a heavy load when, say your doing squats.. Your body reacts, it will break down and rebuild bone stronger so that the body can more safely handle the heavier loads.